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AYMAN MABROUK
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Ayman Mabrouk was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1983. Right in the deepness of the Arabic culture, He grew up listening and exploring many different Oriental music styles, Egyptian, Turkish, Caucasian, North African, Azerbaijani and Gulf Arabian, which formed the basis of his musical work today.
He began to work professionally as a percussionist with some of the most respected bands of the traditional Oriental music scene like the Alexandria Opera House Band and he soon established himself as a sought-after musician, well known for his authentic grasp of Arabic, Jazz, Flamenco, African and Latin American music styles. A few years later he has been featured on many television shows as well as at Jazz & World Music festivals in Egypt, Malta, Lebanon, Hungary, Serbia, Poland, United States of America, Germany,Jordan, Italy and Tunisia.
Mastering a large variety of percussion instruments such as Darbuka, Riq, Cajon, Frame Drums, Congas, Azerbaijani Naghara, Bongos, Djembe, Dohola and many others, he mixes those different cultural percussion instruments with some western ones like the Snare Drum, Hi-Hat, Cymbals and other soft percussions for making a wonderful fusion of sound between all different cultures and identities, his musical influences today are derived from a combination of traditional Arabic and North African rhythms, Gulf Arabian, Flamenco, Latin American styles, Blues, Rock and jazz.
Ayman Mabrouk has been appearing and sharing the stage with several famous artists like the “Grammy and BBC award winner” Fathy Salama and his band “Sharkiat”, and the “Emmy award winner” German pianist Matthias Frey, and the German Saxophonist Büdi Siebert, and the “JPF U.S.A award winner” Spanish guitarist Fernando Perez, and famous French rock singer Rodolphe Burger, and the Choir of the German radio WDR conducted by the Austrian composer Rupert Huber and the Italian Classical music quartet Xenis Ensemble .
Also he has been performing with many respected artists like the winner of the best Oud player in the world 2002 & 2004 “Hazem Chaheen”, world famous qanoun player “Hossam Shaker”, well-known Egyptian German Oud player “Basem Darwisch”, famous Guitar and Oud player the German composer “Roman Bunka”, and the member of international orchestra of Nay the Nay player “Mohamed Antar”. Also he had made many workshops with different artists like Lebanese saxophonist Toufic Farroukh and Lebanese Oud player and composer Charbel Rouhana and the German electronic music composer Tomath Brinkman.
MOHAMMED ANTAR
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Mohammed Antar, (1978-), is an Egyptian musician, Ney player and conductor of Ensemble Munajah for meditative middle-eastern music and Oriental Secrets Ensemble for traditional middle-eastern light music. He is mostly concerned with the Original Middle-eastern musical traditions by which he is abided in his own compositions. Through these compositions, whether restricted by the original forms or in newly invented forms, he tries to set a link between the Middle-eastern rich musical heritage and the contemporary era through developing this musical tradition from the origin, i.e., the main lines, including the shape and the style, are still preserved, yet, he tries to usually make his musical phrases in different styles so as to break the monotony often caused from the stylistic repetitions.
 
Antar’s musical education started as early as his primary school where he learned how to play Piano, Flute-Recorder and Accordion. He met the Ney for the first time in 1993 and learned it in a short time. During his university life, he temporarily stopped his musical activities until in the year 2000 when he listened to the original Arab, Turkish and Persian musical traditions. He then decided to devote himself to studying and developing this original oriental art. He, as a consequence, started to develop his Ney playing through studying with different masters belonging to the different Ney schools, until, in 2003, he decided to dispose himself of his post graduate studies in English and Comparative Literature and professionalise the Middle-eastern musical art.
 
Having studied and mastered the three major Ney styles, namely Arab, Turkish and Persian ney styles, furnished a room for him to make his own Ney style which has characteristics of the above-mentioned schools. Also, his careful listening to the different musical types, with concentration on the oriental musical traditions which he studied with greater care,  gave him a special musical taste reflected in his musical compositions which appeal to the ears of the audience no matter how their musical backgrounds are, as his compositions have musical structural elements taken from all the musical traditions he acquired.
 
Despite the fact that, since 2003, he, as a ney player, used to be a member of various musical groups, starting June 2007, he abandoned his work with the other musicians and he has been more concerned with presenting his own work, and rarely does he play with other groups which do not share the same interests unless in a project through which his work or musical ideology is presented. As a consequence, in addition to supervising, conducting and playing in  his own musical projects, he, as a Ney player, plays only with Asil Ensemble, a group conducted by his brother which has a similar musical attitude yet applied mostly on Arab music.
 
So far, as a Ney soloist, Mohammed Antar gave solo Ney concerts in Egypt, Lebanon, United Kingdom and Turkey since 2004, conducted and played with his different musical groups in Egypt, Turkey and Lebanon since 2004, and performed as a guest or as a main performer with other groups in Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Jordan, Switzerland and Bahrain since 2003. Equally, he presented research papers, gave lectures and conducted workshops in Egypt, United Kingdom and Turkey. A number of his compositions have been performed by other national and international performers. He received various Gifts for Honour as a participant in musical events as a soloist or with his musical groups.
 
He released a couple of solo Ney improvisational albums the first of which is entitled In Mawlana’s Presence in 2007 (only as Digital album), the second is entitled The Arab Maqam in 2008 (Eka3 Productions), and with his group Oriental Secrets Ensemble he released an instrumental light musical album entitled Oriental Breeze in 2009 (Eka3 Productions), and with the Spanish guitarist Fernando Perez, he released an album entitled Nabadat mina’sh-Sharq in 2009 (Personal Production). He also participated in the recording of albums by Eshq Group and Asil Ensemble in which some of his compositions are performed.
AYMAN MASSOUD
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Ayman Massoud (born in Alexandria in 1978) is an Egyptian multi-instrumental musician and composer. He mainly plays keyboards in his band Massar Egbari (www.myspace.com/massaregbari) , in addition to other instruments like guitar, bass, drums, darabuka, ,melodica, oud. 

He started his professional musical career in the mid 90's, and played various genres with different bands. He played Egyptian music, Rock, Blues, accoustic, world music and fusion. 

In 2006, Ayman was awarded as the best keyboards player in the first international music competition organized by Bibliotheca Alexandrina. And in 2008 he got a certificate in "Music theories" from the Associated board of the Royal schools of music.

During his career Ayman played in many countries such as Egypt, Turkey, Malta, Italy, Macedonia and Tanzania. He participated in lots of workshops and had the chance to play along with notable musicians such as the Egyptian Grammy award and BBC award winner Fathy Salama, The German Blues guitarist Jurgen Schubert, the Italian trumpet player Giovani Falzone, the Italian saxophone player Francesco Berzatti, the Turkish percussionist Izzet Kizil and many more.

He also works as a sound engineer in the music field as well as a sound designer for movies, theatre plays and video installations.
MAHMOUD FADL
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Mahmoud Fadl was born in 1955, a descendant of a Nubian family rooted in the Griot culture of the "Battikol" people. He was raised in the Egyptian cities of Assuan and Cairo and started his musical career as a limbo dancer and musician for Nubian and Arabic wedding celebrations. His outstanding talent for percussion soon made him a much sought after musician for top Arabic orchestras and singers like Ahmed Adawia and Nubian soul legend Ali Hassan Kuban.
After several international tours including guest appearances in Syria, Morocco and Greece, Mahmoud Fadl established himself in Europe to develop his own international solo-career. Today the master drummer works and travels between Cairo and Berlin, carrying out rhythm research for his numerous projects. To date he has released four albums with his group Salamat and five under his own name including three with his Drummers of the Nile ensemble, all on Piranha. He has appeared on albums by The Klezmatics and Maurice el Medioni and his Tribal House Project "United Nubians" is one of the most innovative developments of the vibrant Berlin club scene. Catch up with Mahmoud Fadl, musician, film actor, fashion designer and always busy ambassador of "Cairo Cool".
 
 
 
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